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The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea
EVERY FUCKING WEBSITE IS FUCKING BROKEN, AND THE MORE A COMPANY IS PROUD OF HOW MUCH AI IT USES THE MORE BROKEN ITS FUCKING WEBSITE IS. I AM FORCED TO USE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK FOR MY WORK EMAIL AND IT CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE ATTACHMENTS NOW. I HAVE BEEN ATTACHING IMAGES TO EMAILS FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS AND IT HAS NEVER FAILED. EVER. BUT NOW OUTLOOK APPEARS TO ATTACH SOMETHING, APPEARS TO SEND IT, BUT THEN SENDS THE EMAIL INTO A PURGATORY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN US AND HELL, MARKED AS DRAFT IN HALF THE PANES AND AS SENT IN THE OTHERS, NEITHER OF WHICH SHOWS THAT THERE WAS AN ATTACHMENT. IF I CLICK ON THE EMAIL THREAD IT SHOWS THE EMAIL I JUST SENT AS A DRAFT WITH THE SAME DATE AS THE FIRST EMAIL IN THE THREAD, IN THE SECOND POSITION IN THE THREAD, DESPITE IT BEING LIKE THE 20TH EMAIL IN THE THREAD AND SENT JUST NOW. HOW DO YOU EVEN FUCK THAT UP. I HAVE TO SEND THIS EMAIL BECAUSE MY REIMBURSEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AND RESUBMITTED A DOZEN TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF 3 MONTHS, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION IS UNDERSTAFFING THE PROCUREMENT OFFICE BECAUSE OF AI. THE BUGS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN, BEYOND HUMAN ABILITY TO FUCK UP. THIS IS BEYOND GETTING A 500 ERROR OR THE PAGE HAVING ITS SHIT ALL FUCKED UP LOOKING, EXTRAORDINARILY BASIC SHIT ABOUT "WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO" BREAKS IN COMPLETELY INEXPLICABLE WAYS. THIS AI SHIT SUCKS SO BAD AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW PEOPLE IN THE CULT CONVINCE THEMSELVES THAT IT ROCKS FOR CODE IN ANY CAPACITY ASIDE FROM LINE COMPLETION OR PUKING OUT A BOILERPLATE NEXT.JS CRUD DASHBOARD. ANYWAY I JUST NEED TO SCREAM BUT I DONT WANT TO DISRUPT MY COWORKERS AND EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE ON HERE ALREADY KNOWS IT SUCKS, IT STILL FUCKING SUCKS AND I FUCKING HATE IT
@poppyhaze Getting some solid Warhammer 40k vibes here 👍
@floe thank you, every night I close my eyes and all I see is fire, all I smell is the ravaged earth, and all I can taste are my tears.
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We report: late afternoon, the wind is dishevelling the clouds. This is one hour of sunshine in the rainiest winter we have ever encountered, which makes it very precious, even as the humidity is still permeating the air. Even our expert does not say a word about upcoming rain.
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My feedreader's back to how it was before! Though I missed a fair bit of reading...
My browser isn't.
Maybe that's a good thing, maybe it isn't. But I at least need to find all the usernames/passwords I can!
You should see me get back to sharing links again tomorrow morning!
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Reading @iris_meredith 's recent blogpost: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria
In a bit of a tangent: It strikes me that drawing comparisons to gender dysphoria might be a great way to talk about how often my fellow software devs reach for tools like React when simpler & more-maintainable tools could do the trick.
To use a building a metaphor: We're trained & recruited for manly construction work, than channeled into feminine interior decorating jobs. Which far too often I see us demean.
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And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.
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Maybe something to clarify with #HolosSocial. There is a full moderation system like on any Fediverse instance. Moderators can ban accounts. But relays are dumb by design: your identity and data belong to you, not to the relay. A ban is like a relay going down, you don't lose everything. You can move to another relay and keep all your followers, following, and data. With a custom domain the transition is seamless, otherwise it works through standard #ActivityPub migration.
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Yes, I too thirst for these metaphorical construction jobs. But I do see value in the interior decorating work, after all a computer isn't of much use if it doesn't communicate with us!
And even more so I feel driven to be honest about the work I do, I get a knot in my stomach when I don't have the impression my coworkers are.
And to be clear in regards to my gendering: I'm saying that's how I see it viewed, I don't see this gendering as all that real!
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@vtrlx the same mechanisms prescribed for validating fedi handles are exactly the way you validate contributor identities so it's confusing at best to imply someone with a fedi handle could never be someone who uses statistical machines
@vtrlx solution for """"""""agentic"""""""" slopware: do the same thing microsoft and google have successfully done to pypi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116087634363842093
This is a great take.
Anecdote time.
I worked at a company where the engineering team was a mess. An absolute mess. The company as a whole consistently found that the engineering team would just fail to deliver anything. Releases took literally months and required massive investment, they were error prone, and features would get rolled back.
Over time we fixed it. We got it down to a 6 week release cycle that still had a lot of manual steps, but was no longer being compiled on Ye Random Senior Engineer's laptop. There was unit testing and integration testing. Engineering ran on a kanban-like system and features could be delivered at all and, while they still sometimes took a while still (six week release cycles are still painful), they very very rarely would ever see a rollback.
There was still a lot of room for improvement, but we were improving.
Then something happened.
Engineering no longer was the bottleneck.
Why? Because the company was completely unwilling to let go of customers or features and the squirrels in upper management couldn't stay focused for even a single month, let alone for the three months a full feature release would take.
Engineering, even with all of its flaws, had become increasingly reliable, but the rest of the org still held the company back.
Even when we were at our worst our bottleneck was _never_ the actual generation of code. That was always straightforward. The bottleneck was all of the _other_ stuff that went into it. Resources being undersized or hard to bring up, production toil pulling away senior engineers (in particular), customers whose idea of a modern browser was IE6 and who refused to test releases early, etc.
The company persisted in a delusion that the problem was "if we could just write code faster." That was the motto of upper management.
But the problems were never how quickly the code got generated. The problems were deeply systemic. Most ideas were terrible and even when they weren't terrible we couldn't focus on them, and engineers were constantly stressed by shifting directions, "productiontyped" code that might as well have been hallucinated given its lack of quality controls, and fundamental lack of discipline.
AI wouldn't have changed anything.
@jens or the other conclusion of the thread which was "just give every container its own fqdn" so you can talk to it with http and tls
@jens it seems like an antipattern to create a new container every time you have a / in the uri or a new subdirectory
@decryption do you change the frames every time, or only every 2/3/4 years?
@bling cheaper to get a new set! I donate the old ones to Lions Australia https://lionsclubs.org.au/our-impact/recycle-for-sight-australia/
@vtrlx usually it does. i'm concerned about any attempt to link contributor identities to """real-world""" identities since this can be and often is used for censorship of marginalized identities
@vtrlx the same mechanisms prescribed for validating fedi handles are exactly the way you validate contributor identities so it's confusing at best to imply someone with a fedi handle could never be someone who uses statistical machines
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🤯 SHOCKING: 12News has obtained new public records from Supt. Horne’s AZ Dept. of Education indicating fraud levels in Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program are MUCH higher than the 1% Horne has repeatedly claimed — in fact, these documents show unallowable purchases may account for as much as 20% of transactions. That’s one in five‼️
🤯 SHOCKING: 12News has obtained new public records from Supt. Horne’s AZ Dept. of Education indicating fraud levels in Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program are MUCH higher than the 1% Horne has repeatedly claimed — in fact, these documents show unallowable purchases may account for as much as 20% of transactions. That’s one in five‼️
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Here's a useful guide to voting on California's proposed wealth tax. The massively corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and (of course) the state's billionaires absolutely hate the idea.
That is a key reason why I'm voting for it, and urging everyone I know in California to do the same.
@jens skipping ahead a bit, LDP allows for containers to contain containers, but items of a subcontainer aren't necessarily items of a parent container i think. this is because a subcontainer should be able to be moved around without affecting any of its internal items/subresources
i guess base uri gets recalculated in a cascade?
@jens or the other conclusion of the thread which was "just give every container its own fqdn" so you can talk to it with http and tls
@trwnh What if a contained item is also a container?
@jens skipping ahead a bit, LDP allows for containers to contain containers, but items of a subcontainer aren't necessarily items of a parent container i think. this is because a subcontainer should be able to be moved around without affecting any of its internal items/subresources
i guess base uri gets recalculated in a cascade?
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I know I have so much privilege and luck to be able to travel in another country away from home right now, but damn I am intensely missing my animals today! Especially my cats.